If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
"It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
"I had a sense of foreboding that the whole effort to get the perpetrators to apologise would fail," admits Adi, when I ask him if he was surprised by the response.
FDR famously proclaimed: "It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
During the terrible Depression that began eight decades ago this week, Franklin Roosevelt called for "bold, persistent experimentation" and said, "It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
When all else fails, admit blatantly to the crime.
When that cover-up failed, he admitted to investigators that he had provided information to Mr. Boesky, who was then the best-known risk arbitrager, as traders who specialized in betting on takeovers were known.
The company's recent attempts to increase its user base and keep them from abandoning their accounts at the current rate have failed, Dorsey admitted, but "this is unacceptable", he told investors, "and we're not happy about it".
"In a curious way my ambition has failed," he admitted backstage.
"It took a long time for me to admit that I had failed," Benjamin Anastas admits in the opening sentence of his new memoir, "Too Good to Be True" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
